Persian Kingship and Architecture : Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis (Hardcover)

Introduction. Sussan Babaie and Talinn Grigor Chapter 1: Achaemenid Imperial Architecture: Performative Porticoes of Persepolis. Margaret Cool Root Chapter 2: Dynastic Sanctuaries and the Transformation of Iranian Kingship between Alexander and Islam. Matthew P. Canepa Chapter 3: The Sassanian Palaces and Their Influence in Early Islam. Lionel Bier Chapter 4: In the Footsteps of the Sasanians: Funerary Architecture and Bavandid Legitimacy. Melanie Michailidis Chapter 5: Sacred Sites of Kingship: The Maydan and the Spatial-Spiritual Mapping of the Empire in Safavid Iran. Sussan Babaie Chapter 6: Kingship Hybridized, Kingship Homogenized: Revivalism under the Qajar and the Pahlavi Dynasties. Talinn Grigor